Sonny Bill Williams

What's the script with this guy?
One minutes he is Rugby league. Then he switches code to Union then back to league and now back to Union again. In between all this ship jumping he also becomes a Pro Boxer.

They changed the rules in Rugby League a few years ago on shoulder barge tackles, which was SBW's entire defensive game. When Rugby League brought in the same nancy tackling rules as Union, SBW must have figured wtf is the difference - show me the money.

He was talking to NFL scouts a while back but not sure what happened with that.

One of the reasons that the roosters signed SBW was to bring his proffessionalism and attitude to the team and hope that it would rub off onto the younger players. Much the same way that Freddy Fittler had influenced the team a years back.

Though, to be fair to little Sonny Bill, despite flying backwards he still managed to hold onto an ankle...

To be fair, SBW was not properly trained to handle this spot, because he usually would just put his right fist to his left shoulder, right elbow suare rested on the top of the stomach, stood there, flattened, and possibly killed Burgess, who was smart enough to play on the new rules and tempt SBW into a barge. He was trying to milk a penalty running at SBW like that!

Originally Posted by 9999

They changed the rules in Rugby League a few years ago on shoulder barge tackles, which was SBW's entire defensive game. When Rugby League brought in the same nancy tackling rules as Union, SBW must have figured wtf is the difference - show me the money.

I'd like to see Burgess take a charge at SBW like that after a little proper Union training.